On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:43:45AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:26:40AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > All the really trendy network services these days broadcast their presence > > on the LAN using mDNS. In Linux world this means becoming an Avahi client > > and registering our services. virt-manager is also able to become an Avahi > > client and browser for services. So you'll be able to let the user just > > pick a host straight off a list instead of typing in hostname. > > +1 on the principle, allows to break the bootstrap problem and way better > from an UI perspective (as long as you don't end up with a 200 host lost to > pick from. That's for the administrator to decide. If they enable Avahi on their Linux boxes on a LAN where 100's of boxes are on the same segment they're making a conscious choice to end up which a huge list ! I wouldn't imagine large scale deployments using it really because the amount of mDNS traffic may well get far too large. Very well suited for home / small business users though Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list